Introduction

| Post date: 2017/05/22 |

In the recent decade, around the world, the most of accredited universities pay attention to launch of specialized training courses for nurses to provide care for critical patients. The result of this issue is the creation of disciplines such as intensive care nursing. In Iran following the need for providing intensive and emergency care to multidimensional human being, and establishment of special care centers, the disciplines of critical care nursing and emergency nursing were introduced.
Critical care nursing and emergency are specific majors of nursing for training knowledgeable, competent and committed graduates for optimization of nursing care from critically ill patients who needs intensive care and injured people and/or emergency patients. The aim of this major is training students with special knowledge, attitude and practice in care of critically ill patients and injured people and/or emergency patients, and strengthening fundamentals of management, education, research, ethics and professionalism in graduates. The mission of this major is reducing mortality and morbidity of patients and/or injured people, structural development and promotion in the process of nursing care, and training of graduate students with efficient skills and competencies.